Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-30
CONNUBIALITIES.

Joseph Handel, stage manager Of Ford's
comic opera, and Nina May were lately mar
ried at Fostoria o.
1t is stated that the daughter of Senator
Mitchell of Oregon is shortly to marry Mr..
H. Taylor of Chicago.
Carlos Hasselbrink, first violin of the Met
rOpolitan orchestra, was lately married in
New York city to Miss Pattie Harrison
Jury.
John F. McGrath, business manager of the
Keokuk Gate City, was married to Miss Lulu
McCarty, of Hannibal, Mo-, last Wednesday,
October 20.
A Maine widower gave a man so to pay
for fuel while the widower was counting the
mans daughter. She refused to marry him,
and he is trying to recover the SO.
In Chattanooga recently five marriage Ii
censes were issued in one day, and four Of
the prospective bridegrOomS were unable to
write their names, but had to make their
mark upon the record book.
0Ex-minister Thomas, of Maine, was mar
ried at Stockholm ON the 18th inst to Miss
ID. f. Thornblad, the daughter of a Swedish
political celebrity. Mr.. Thomas is a rich
Maine man.
A Washington correspondent says Secre-
tary Bayard is to marry Miss Sophia Markoe
In naming over Miss Markoe's accomplish
ments, the correspondent says she is fifty
years old and the best amateur pianist in
Washington.
Announcement of the editor of the Quincy
(Mich.) Herald, who is also preacher
1--WE marry the first licensed couple who APP
plies to us free of charge send them a copy
of the Quincy Herald one year for nothing,
and if they are not satisfied we will throw in
a good sized chrome in the bargain"
George Carter and Ella Crosby went in
from the country to see the Louisville exposi-
ton. When they arrived they found that
the show was over. They returned to the
depot, but found that their train would not
leave in several hours. Carter proposed that
in order to kill time they should get married,
and so in that way they killed time until the
next train came along.
A honeymoon was rudely interrupted in
Salem, Ind. A few days after the wedding
the bride was arrested at the instance Of the
superintendent of a female reformatory for
violating rule of the institution and also the
law of Indiana She had been an inmate Of
the reformatory and had been released on
parole only two weeks. It was illegal for
her to contract marriage, consequently she
will spend her honeymoon in prison.
The Warren county,. Pa, commissioners
have discovered that hundreds of couples
have been married, in the past few years in
an old house on the western border of the
county, under the impression that they were
being married in Ohio, and escaping the Ii
cense law. They find the house is in Penn
sylvania and insist that all the marrying
ought to be done over again, to give the
matches legal status.
About year ago Miss Blanche Buswell
of West Troy, N. Y, went to California to
visit relatives. While there she met G. G..
Walkerly, wealthy merchant and manufac-
turer. Eventually she became Walkerly's
wife. A short time ago Mr.. Walkerly died,
leaving his whole fortune, amounting to be-
tween q, ,0OO, 900 and a. 0O0, 900, to his wife.
Mrs. Walkerly is not yet twenty-five years Of
age. Her husband was sixty at the time of
his death.
Jesse Brown, Of Washington, who, it is
said, will soon marry Miss Victoria West,
daughter of British Minister Sir Lionel Sack
vile West, is the son Of the late Marshall
Brown, at one time a famous Washington
boniface. Mr. Brown is q man about thirty
fond Of fine clothes. He is a popular club
man. Miss Victoria West Is a handsome
girl Of the English type. She is nearly
twenty years Browns junior. 1t is further
rumored that Sir Lionel Sackville West is
engaged TO the beautiful daughter of Senator
Mitchell, Of Oregon. -